Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follette's Civil Liberties Committee both investigated Mr. Young. Choice reports to Young publicized by the Committees: from Missionary Brother Paul in Ecuador, "Indian work . . . needs a great deal of prayer. Yesterday I saw the Minister of War again and made arrangements to demonstrate. . . ." From a Los Angeles salesman, "I think someone should get out a restraining order on the President of the United States to prevent him from stopping all of these strikes...
...Young, who considers tear gas a humanitarian substitute for bullets, was out of the spotlight. He was still President of Federal Laboratories, but Federal Laboratories had become the subsidiary of a much more obscure company. Name of its corporate parent was Breeze Corporations, of which Munitions Salesman Young became executive vice president, and a director...
Obscure were the origins of Breeze Corps., excellent its connections. Created in 1926 by Super-Salesman Joseph J. Mascuch (rhymes with "shoe"), who was formerly in the bumper business. Breeze established itself in Washington as an accepted supplier of aircraft parts to the Government (sales, 1927: $136,805; first nine months of 1938: $2,200,065). Adaptable and efficient, it succeeded also in getting an order for 12,000,000 lbs. of equipment for the stacks of the U. S. Government's Archives Building...
...long, however, did Breeze remain obscure. In March 1938 Breeze elected two other directors, representatives of a Wall Street group, headed by Securities Salesman John J. Bergen, which had sold Breeze common stock to the public. In August 1938, SEC slapped down a stop order, charged that Breeze had overstated the value of its patents and its future sales prospects, implied that such rapid expansion should inspire conservatism in the corporation's statement of its worth. After subsequent amendments, the order was lifted...
...That Salesman Mascuch, whose salary was running at about $6,000 to $12,000 a year, had drawn $88,000 for "sales expenses" in that time without accounting for any of it; that the company was carrying him for an additional $21,000, other individuals for other loans; that it had guaranteed a debt of its subsidiary, Federal Laboratories...